Tiffany Caban

Tiffany Caban was a New York City Democratic politician and public defender from Astoria, Queens who ran for Queens District Attorney in 2019.

Biography
Tiffany Caban was born in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City to a working-class family of Puerto Rican immigrants. A self-identified "queer Latina", she felt that people like her family were the type who the system was trying to keep down, so she became a public defender who defended over 1,000 clients who were unable to pay for their own lawyer, and many of whom were unable to pay for bail from Rikers Island. In 2019, seeking to bring justice to working people, she ran for Queens District Attorney, to decriminalize poverty, to reduce recidivism (repeat offenders), to decriminalize sex work, and to end cash bail. She then accused the corrupt Queens political machine of not wanting her to win, as they profited from foreclosures and took millions of dollars from developers. She accused her opponent Melinda Katz of being supported by the machine, as real estate developers had donated $158,000 to her campaign. Her campaign was endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.